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A longtime Google employee took a trip to North Korea and captured these scenes of everyday life with his iPhone

Apr 20, 2016, 19:34 IST

Omid Scheybani

San Francisco-based photographer and longtime Google employee Omid Scheybani recently went on a 10-day trip through North Korea.

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He carried only his iPhone to snap the pics, explaining in an interview with photo-sharing app EyeEm, "It was easy to quickly pull up the cam and take shots."

The notoriously secretive North Korean government has strict guidelines regarding what can and can't be photographed in the country. Even professional Getty photographers use only their phones to capture images of the rarely-seen culture.

While there were rules that limited what he could capture, Scheybani worked within the restrictions to capture some beautiful moments.

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